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The creative folks over at Kougaku Navi in Japan want you to play the WiiU's hit shooter in VR with a hacked water gun and the WiiU pad strapped to your back! As crazy as this sounds, they've managed to get this to work and have been tweeting about their project:

#スプラトゥーン の新しいインタフェース作った pic.twitter.com/rqedtePWAY

— kougaku (@kougaku) June 20, 2016

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The setup includes a Sony HMD headset, a hacked water gun controller and the Wii U GamePad. The latter is strapped to the back to approximate where you are aiming the gun using its gyroscope since the HMD headset lacks one. The gun, which is wirelessly connected to the GamePad, controls moving forward, backwards and shooting.

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Although not VR in the "traditional sense", it is an interesting take on the game and also a quite fascinating project! They are currently on version 3.0 and slowly making progress. I, for one, am excited to see where the project will lead and its possible application to other games!

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[OctopusRift]

HIDtoVPAD works good eh?

 

[LightyKD]

Would love to see Nintendo embrace this and release a special Splatoon water gun just for this! I wonder if other headsets could be used for this.

 

[orangy57]

It's cool, but without head tracking the immersion is practically gone.

 

[s0r00t]

still waiting for vr marie here

 

[JazzCat.CL]

This is like, The Typing of the dead... hahaha!

 

[BurningDesire]

This is what I need for Waifu wars!

Why have a war when you can have a harem?